{"id":183,"date":"2010-07-26T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T01:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2022-10-15T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T22:14:23","slug":"visual-flow-monitoring-using-the-ethermeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Visual Flow Monitoring Using The EtherMeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jim ‘Slim’ Mimlitz, SCADAmetrics<\/p><\/div>The EtherMeter is the only known device that can calculate, transmit, and display rate-of-flow and totalization\u00a0from all the major encoder-based water meters.\u00a0 And this fact can come in handy for a multitude of applications.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0example, there are often occasions where bulk water users wish to visually monitor flow rate through a variable speed pump or a throttled valve.\u00a0 Furthermore,\u00a0while viewing the flow rate, the user may wish to\u00a0modify the pump speed\u00a0or control the valve to achieve a desired flow rate.<\/p>\n

Recently, a Coal-Fired Power Plant in Northern Arizona, assisted by Dana Kepner Co.<\/a> (CO, AZ, MT, NV, TX, WY), accomplished that very objective.\u00a0 A simple Flow Rate Display Unit<\/strong> was built using an EtherMeter coupled with a Sensus Propeller Meter\u00a0installed upon\u00a0its bulk cooling water pipeline.<\/p>\n

Because the plant is not permitted to exceed a\u00a0certain flow rate, its personnel manually adjust a gate valve while visually monitoring the flow rate on the EtherMeter.<\/p>\n

The particular EtherMeter was staged in a location where 120VAC power was not readily available, so the unit was powered by solar energy (The EtherMeter’s power consumption is ~1.5W in power-saver mode.)<\/p>\n

The EtherMeter in this application was not connected to the plant’s SCADA system — although it is always a future possibility, given the unit’s\u00a0robust Modbus and Allen-Bradley protocol support.<\/p>\n

The EtherMeter, Enclosure, Solar Panel, Battery, Solar Charge Controller, and Sensus Propeller Meter were provided to the customer by Dana Kepner Co. <\/a>(CO, AZ, MT, NV, TX, WY).\u00a0 Power plant personnel performed the panel integration and installation.\u00a0 Photos courtesy of Dana Kepner Co.<\/p>\n

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Solar-Powered EtherMeter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Closeup of EtherMeter, Charge-Controller, and Battery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Windowed Enclosure Provides Visual Flow Rate Reading To Power Plant Personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flow-Rate Display\u00a0During Actual\u00a0Operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EtherMeter is the only known device that can calculate, transmit, and display rate-of-flow and totalization\u00a0from all the major encoder-based water meters.\u00a0 And this fact can come in handy for a multitude of applications. For\u00a0example, there are often occasions where bulk water users wish to visually monitor flow rate through a variable speed pump or …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[60,58,13,31,59,30],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications","category-meteringtechnology","tag-absolute-encoder","tag-flow-display","tag-flow-rate","tag-gas-meter","tag-rate-of-flow","tag-water-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadametrics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}